When you make $9.5 million a year, you don’t need to pay for taxis - just ask Brandon Marshall

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall was handcuffed and briefly detained by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies after he was accused of fleeing to evade paying a $142 cab fare…Peterson Pierre, a driver for Miami Springs Taxi Company, picked him up at the resort and, after first going to Miami International Airport, they eventually ended up at the Fort Lauderdale airport. “He didn’t know where he wanted to go,” Pierre told South Florida Times on Monday. “When I woke him up and told him he had to pay, he said he wasn’t and started arguing for me to take him home.”...He entered the airport lobby and then Pierre saw him leave through a different exit and jump into another cab…McGuire said Marshall “was simply getting someone to help translate.”

"McGuire" would be Brandon's agent Kennard - you know, the same guy who advised Peyton Hillis not to play because he had a sore throat.

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Evolvement, eh? Well, we&#8217ve talked about everything else. Since I&#8217m not in Kansas, at least they can&#8217t arrest me for teaching about it.

I loved watching Alan Page when he defected from Minn to Chicago for a few seasons - he was a brilliant and durable defensive player who in 215 consecutive games. I&#8217ve lost track of the Halls of Fame that he has been inducted into, but not his later position - when still with the Vikes, he was also enrolled in the U of Minn School of Law. He currently serves his final term on the State of Minnesota Supreme Court, after which he&#8217ll be over 70 and has to retire, by law.

If anyone&#8217s interested, in 2010, Bill McGrane wrote a biography about Justice Page entitled All Rise, The Remarkable Journey of Alan Page. It&#8217s a heck of a read.

The point is, so much for the supposedly low IQ of football players. Actually, having treated professional athletes, they&#8217re much like the general public - some very bright, some not (although few - the complexities of modern football theory weeds most of them out), some are kind and quiet, some loud and self-absorbed. Some of their stories are about saving people from burning buildings, as Sammie Lee Hill did. Some are about suffering from mental illness, as Marshall does.

Why do people like to read about it? You might as well ask why People magazine sells so well: It&#8217s because people love to gossip.

Posted by Doc Bear on 2011-12-02 09:11:48

jtomasik, I don&#8217t know about your household but I&#8217ve ...

* Never been arrested for assaulting a police officer.

* Never ticked off a gang member enough to have him attempt to kill me.

* Never been arrested for domestic violence.

* Never been arrested for DUI.

* Never had 11 calls to the sheriff&#8217s department for domestic situations.

* Never had battery charges filed against me.

* Never been arrested for disorderly conduct.

* Never gotten stabbed by my wife.

* Never tried to skip out on a taxi bill.

* Never been repeatedly suspended by my work.

Just because he&#8217s an athlete doesn&#8217t mean he should get a pass.